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Casey Alt - Information Science + Information Studies - Duke UniversityCasey Alt - Information Science + Information Studies - Duke University

Casey AltInformation Science + Information Studies

Duke University

Casey AltInformation Science + Information Studies

Duke University

Re-Envisioning the Humanities

Re-Envisioning the Humanities

Information Visualization and Collaborative Academic

Research

Information Visualization and Collaborative Academic

Research


This presentation is representative of work done in the hpsCollaboratory under the faculty direction of Tim Lenoir (Program in History and Philosophy of Science at Stanford University)

My collaborator for both the collaborative timeline and genealogy has been Vince Dorie (masters student in Biomedical Informatics at Stanford)

The majority of this work has been funded by a grant from the Sloan Foundation and Dibner Institute

This presentation is representative of work done in the hpsCollaboratory under the faculty direction of Tim Lenoir (Program in History and Philosophy of Science at Stanford University)

My collaborator for both the collaborative timeline and genealogy has been Vince Dorie (masters student in Biomedical Informatics at Stanford)

The majority of this work has been funded by a grant from the Sloan Foundation and Dibner Institute

AcknowledgmentsAcknowledgments


the pervasive push to digitize non-digital media documents and archives and make them available online

a focus on acquiring born-digital media documents during or shortly after their creation

an attempt to preserve older digital media documents and ensure their migratability to future platforms

the pervasive push to digitize non-digital media documents and archives and make them available online

a focus on acquiring born-digital media documents during or shortly after their creation

an attempt to preserve older digital media documents and ensure their migratability to future platforms

Digital Humanities (Version 1.0)



Benefits of version 1.0


Increased geographic access to archives

Ease of distribution and replication of documents

Extremely granular, corpus-wide searchability of archives

Increased geographic access to archives

Ease of distribution and replication of documents

Extremely granular, corpus-wide searchability of archives


can we leverage the digital nature of the new archives so as to provide greater data analysis and access, such as clustering by language content?

can we provide differing visual representations of the data so as to draw out higher level relationships among documents?

can we develop intuitive interfaces to archives that allow the historical actors themselves to contribute to and richly document their own archives?

can we leverage the digital nature of the new archives so as to provide greater data analysis and access, such as clustering by language content?

can we provide differing visual representations of the data so as to draw out higher level relationships among documents?

can we develop intuitive interfaces to archives that allow the historical actors themselves to contribute to and richly document their own archives?




Collaborative Timeline

Collaborative Genealogy



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Systems Architecture

Systems Architecture




Improved ability to analyze and understand relationships among diverse documents and collections

Greater ability to integrate and display different digital media formats into a single research framework

Enhanced capacity and enthusiasm for large-scale, global collaborative projects

Immense excitement from the humanities, arts, medical, and social science communities regarding further investigation into digitally-mediated research

Improved ability to analyze and understand relationships among diverse documents and collections

Greater ability to integrate and display different digital media formats into a single research framework

Enhanced capacity and enthusiasm for large-scale, global collaborative projects

Immense excitement from the humanities, arts, medical, and social science communities regarding further investigation into digitally-mediated research


Building version 3.0 (semantic web & expert

systems)

Building version 3.0 (semantic web & expert

systems)an interface with multiple views into the data (geographic, time-based, 3D affinity models, etc)

a system that allows for mapping any type of relationship connection between data objects, including genealogical, causal, associative, constituitive, adjancency, similarity, identity, etc)

a semantic web data structure that allows for machine readability and computation of relationships

simple inference-based artificial intelligence models for data mining and novel relationship discovery

an interface with multiple views into the data (geographic, time-based, 3D affinity models, etc)

a system that allows for mapping any type of relationship connection between data objects, including genealogical, causal, associative, constituitive, adjancency, similarity, identity, etc)

a semantic web data structure that allows for machine readability and computation of relationships

simple inference-based artificial intelligence models for data mining and novel relationship discovery


RHISOMERHISOME

adapted from Deleuze + Guattari’s notion of the rhizome in Milles Plateaus

RDF-BASED HAPTIC INTERFACE FOR SEMANTIC OBJECT

MAPPING & EDITING

a visual interface for mapping objects in a collaboratively constructed semantic web

allows for complex relationship mapping, browsing, and AI-based analysis

adapted from Deleuze + Guattari’s notion of the rhizome in Milles Plateaus

RDF-BASED HAPTIC INTERFACE FOR SEMANTIC OBJECT

MAPPING & EDITING

a visual interface for mapping objects in a collaboratively constructed semantic web

allows for complex relationship mapping, browsing, and AI-based analysis


Graphical knowledge environments as a new vision for

the humanities

Graphical knowledge environments as a new vision for

the humanitiesas publishing costs rise and academic presses decrease production, dynamic, collaborative, archive-based knowledge environments become an attractive option for presenting academic research

as university research becomes increasingly proprietary and protected, one could imagine a pay-for-use model for browsing knowledge environments

as AI and web-searching technology advance and the semantic web becomes more widespread, one could imagine visual, self-maintaining knowledge environments that update themselves with new content and analyses

as publishing costs rise and academic presses decrease production, dynamic, collaborative, archive-based knowledge environments become an attractive option for presenting academic research

as university research becomes increasingly proprietary and protected, one could imagine a pay-for-use model for browsing knowledge environments

as AI and web-searching technology advance and the semantic web becomes more widespread, one could imagine visual, self-maintaining knowledge environments that update themselves with new content and analyses


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Casey Alt

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hpslab.stanford.edu

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hpslab.stanford.edu

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